Director tuts
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- biggusdickus
hi,
are there any good tutorials on Lingo? im totally new to director so pity me :(
- dsc0
http://brennan.young.net/Edu/Lin…
this is great for lingo . . . may be too advanced if you are just starting up though
- foreign0
the Director 8 & Lingo Bible:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
really good for "learning-by-example".
incl. cd with source, etc.
I used this when I first started out in Director 6. I had no programming or Director experience... you might want to look for something more advanced.
- foreign0
the info on here is also quite extensive, and easy to follow...
- ldww0
is director still used? (honestly currious). what do you use it for that flash can not do?
i have not seen/used it since college.
- foreign0
i've used it less often the last couple of years, mostly 'cause i've been doing more web development.
at the moment i'm developing an interactive dvd with 15000 images managed with a database in director
i started out doing digital/multimedia design with director 6 about 6 years ago. most people don't even know what it is... i love it.
- foreign0
my flash skills are really limited so i can't really comment about what you can/can't do... one major thing you can't do in director though is quality motion vector animation like in flash, but you can import flash movies into director.
- ldww0
thats why i do not understand why its still around. if you can do more/better animation in flash why not just use flash for the whole thing?
i used it a ton before flash, havn't toched it since.
- foreign0
for offline development: dvd, cd, kiosks, etc.
- ldww0
flash can do offlne, even standalone.
- Mimio0
It's becoming more like Flash all the time, espcially with the adoption of javaScript syntax. Probably will become the same product in the future, or atleast a more complementary one.
- biggusdickus0
thx for the sites..
i myself as a student also curious why they want to teach director instead of flash. :D
- foreign0
director and flash doesn't do the same thing:
Macromedia Director
As a multimedia authoring tool designed to create rich interactive content for both fixed media and the Internet, Director can incorporate photo-quality images, full-screen or long-form digital video, sounds, animation, 3D models, text, hypertext, bitmaps, and Macromedia Flash content.Macromedia Flash
As a vector-based program designed to create and display small files on the web, Macromedia Flash accomplishes this feat by limiting the types of images and media that can be displayed.
- foreign0
While Macromedia Flash is typically used to create content, Director is usually used to aggregate and shape many different multimedia files into a single coherent presentation.
- biggusdickus0
looks like i got an interesting sofrware to learn for this sem :D